I watched an interesting documentary series on Netflix called "Formula 1 Drive to Survive". Each week it looked at different drivers and teams and how they did in the 2018-2019 season. Having seen that series, I can't help but detest Christian Horner that little but more now. I think he likes the sound of his own voice and is quite the politician when questioned on anything which he seems to revel in. I see now with more behind the scenes footage and interviews/talks, that the treatment that Daniel Ricciardo got was pretty disgusting, prioritising Max throughout the season. It was always all about Max.
The fall out between Renault and Redbull was pretty cringe worthy and I felt Christian was totally unprofessional and disrespectful publicly to Renault head Cyril Abiteboul.
Renault need to fix things fast though. Daniel had no where else to go for a seat sadly. I hope Renault get back on track given they are also powering the Mclarens which seem to be showing signs of improvement in aero/chassis.
Lol, Ricciardo's treatment was 'disgusting', after one crash they didn't want him to publicly go out and bash Max, that's it. The same way Rosberg hit Hamilton twice, cheated multiple times and Hamilton was asked to not just attack him publicly every weekend because that is how all teams want drivers to behave. Other than that there was literally nothing else at all, he wasn't prioritised over Ricciardo at all.
There was literally no indication and nothing in that documentary that says they prioritised him all year, there were people saying MAYBE they will favour Max in the future, despite doing nothing to hamper Ricciardo in the slightest so far. The documentary was painfully biased throughout and was very obviously and purposefully for some drivers and against others. it was pro Ricciardo so portrayed Max and Red Bull poorly and Renault in the best possible light. LIkewise the documentary loved Ocon and portrayed him and anyone helping him positively and everyone who didn't help him as nasty. Perez is apparently a piece of crap driver who only has his seat because he paid for it. Ignoring the fact that Force India were going under, his move to push them into administration over 4 million in unpaid wages helped get the team out of Vijay's hands who was delaying a sale to try to make more money which led to the team being saved rather than running out of money.
Ricciardo left for the money at Renault and used his mate Will Buxton to help show a picture in a documentary that he didn't join an obviously much worse team and run away from a fight with Max which he was losing for the money... it's because the team absolutely screwed him by never moving him over to help out Max. Pretty much the whole documentary was a who does Will Buxton love and who does he hate show. He's literally been caught making stuff up that Max said before because he dislikes him.
Horner has always liked to get his digs in at other people, but to say it's unprofessional, he's on tv and the fans like to see some funny banter, it makes for decent tv and more interesting interviews and realistically if they were just boring in interviews it would be just that, boring. Cyril has attempted to make lots of comments about Cyril also but in general just isn't as good at is. Also Renault have been letting Red Bull, Lotus, TR and others down since 2014, they have failed time and time again to provide a competitive reliable engine. Renault have deserved a lot of criticism and with Red Bull being one of the three really big spending teams not having a competitive engine is a bad situation. If Renault actually fixed their engine and made it reliable and have similar performance there would be nothing for Horner to complain about.
